Originally Posted By: cohoangler
mass-marking and mark-selective fisheries become worthless as a conservation tool.


I'd like to just clarify something here. If harvest managers utilize the reduced mortality estimate, to expand the fishery time frame, as is done with most, maybe all MSF fisheries, there is no conservation benefit. You are killing the same amount of ESA fish, your just doing it at a slower rate. How can that be considered to have a conservation benefit? It's a harvest benefit. Please call it for what it is.....